Re: Generational starships


Dan Tilque wrote:
Anyone ever notice that it's a virtual requirement that the
inhabitants of a multi-generation starship forget that they are
in a ship? And they always lose all their technology and regress
to the early Iron Age or something like that. In fact, I seem to
remember one in which that was the design of the mission.

Any counter examples? Where the inhabitants have not forgotten
they are on a ship by the time they've reached their destination?

--
Dan Tilque

Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo basically fits the bill, although
the crew has lost the knowledge of what their mission/origin is

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